Guitarist and singer Bob Welch, whose work in the early 1970s for Fleetwood Mac set the stage for the band's multi-platinum success later in the decade, died on Thursday at his home in Nashville. He was 66.

Brian Wilson got most of the ink, being the tortured genius and all. Carl Wilson had the sweet falsetto voice and died too young. But Dennis Wilson, the drummer, was the real surfer in The Beach Boys, the guy who got around, dating Christine McVie from...

In a time when new music moves so fast that it feels like we should already be talking about 2012âs hot young bands, here are 11 of our picks to watch in 2011 â a few new names and some more recognizable locals primed to take their sounds to new